Friends and foes alike marvel at its skill at analysing market trends and responding quickly.
The most important business skill is creativity, and creativity is not a skill at all.
In Smith's new house, his skill at mixing, not matching is on full display.
Like a broken record, investment gurus continue to say they have skill at market timing.
But as Monfils has shown, patience just might be the most important skill at this year's French Open.
His skill at capturing the texture of daily experience set a gold standard for future generations of novelists.
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And given the importance of visual communication, you might think that skill at sharing photos would be considered desirable.
And incidentally, getting education or getting any skill at these online places is a wonderful way of improving yourself.
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His success was due partly to his grasp of detail, partly to his skill at consensus-building among competing groups.
His skill at deflecting crises does not conceal his inability to prevent them from blowing up in the first place.
But perhaps the biggest factor is that Arab autocrats' skill at keeping their seats has by now been bolstered by custom.
Partly, it is Russia's skill at playing on divisions within the block.
DPJ, led by Katsuya Okada, has clearly been frustrated by Mr Koizumi's skill at portraying Japan Post as a litmus test for reformists.
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Mr Lee helped create an Asian junk-bond market from scratch, and Peregrine built a reputation for its skill at raising cash for fast-growing companies.
Given the principlists' strong core of voters, their control of key institutions, and their well-tested skill at using them, the reformists face a tough battle.
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The English conductor Harry Bicket is well known for his skill at making modern-instrument orchestras like the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago sound like period-instrument ensembles.
Lewis was known for his skill at interpreting and writing clearly about the decisions of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren in the 1950s and '60s.
She is renowned for her skill at choosing "trending" celebrities, such as DJ Mark Ronson and actor James Franco, to star in Gucci's advertising campaigns long before they become universally known.
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And skill at reframing is hugely powerful and strategic.
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The poems are believed to have been recited by jongleurs (Old French for entertainers) in castles, marketplaces and at weddings, where a good raconteur would get paid for his skill at entertaining.
Skill at painting and drawing were his measure of artistic success, and he found it in the work of Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Philip Pearlstein, Susan Rothenberg, Elizabeth Murray, Philip Guston, R.
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His skill at word-play, coupled with a self-destructive and fatalistic attitude to life (in a Russian intellectual, no less) lands him a job first as a copywriter, and then as something more sinister.
He will use his businessman's skill at setting broad targets to get to grips with the long list of things that need doing in California, from improving its schools to building more houses.
Nonetheless, the bipartisan tableau had clear political import, challenging one of Mr. Romney's arguments: that he, as Massachusetts governor, showed more skill at working across party lines than Mr. Obama has demonstrated as president.
And, this year, instead of promising to transform yourself overnight into a better parent, how about committing to continually improve your parenting little by little, by learning, thinking deeply about, and mastering one skill at a time?
As Mr Alani puts it, the network differs from all other militant Islamist movements in its global reach, its focus on very high-value targets and its skill at covering its traces by spiriting agents from one country to another.
Whatever American residents may think about his politics, they are clearly captivated, if not also captured, not only by the epochal first-this-and-first-that of his candidacy and election but the timeless quality of brilliance in his open-pore skill at public performance.
And in case that seems to leave brawny manual labourers still sunk in tears, isn't it these same men who drive the trains, fight the fires and hold society in thrall to their skill at mending motors and fixing the plumbing?
It's worth contemplating that the most powerful and substantive works are not those in which Zoffany awes us with his considerable skill at painting frothy fabrics and other accoutrements of the era's formal portraiture, but rather the substantive studies of interesting sitters.
Or, in the case of the late Jaime Escalante, since his skill at teaching calculus proved difficult to transfer to others, in the future the Escalantes of tomorrow will teach kids around the world who will get their instruction from Apple Inc.
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